n Seaway Timber Harvesting, Inc., Massena, sold 76 acres of land for $151,240.

n Curran Development Inc., Massena, sold 1.12 acres of land bounded by Route 37 for $299,950.

The property newly acquired by Alcoa will be transferred to the state, according to Alcoa spokesperson Laurie A. Marr.

We purchased it to donate it to the state as part of the NRDA settlement. What the state does with it is not up to us, Ms. Marr said. The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe was one of the trustees of the settlement.

Natural Resource Damage Assessment program manager for the tribe, Barbara Tarbell, said the tribe will use two parcels of the property.

There are two parcels that Alcoa is purchasing. We treat them as two separate parcels, Ms. Tarbell said. They are the ones located at Wilson Hill and Coles Creek. Both of them, they provide significant wildlife benefit.

The recent purchase of property was a part of the $19.4 million settlement the tribe made with both Alcoa and the Reynolds Metals Company for damage caused by contaminants released by the aluminum manufacturers Massena operations since the 1950s.

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